Three Venezuelan visitors who reportedly were found with nearly $60,000 in United States currency and a loaded firearm in a Tortola apartment were ordered remanded when they appeared before Magistrate Ayanna Baptiste DaBreo. Those charged with keeping a firearm without […]

A new judge has been appointed to serve for a year in the Commercial Division of the High Court here in the British Virgin Islands. Justice K. Neville Adderley, whose appointment took effect yesterday (September 1), is a former Bahamian […]

Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards has granted $45,000 bail to Shaquille Benjamin, who is accused of being in possession of marijuana. The prosecution alleged that, around 8pm on January 18 this year, police were on foot patrol in the Purcell Estate […]

Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards has revoked Robert ‘Tico’ Harrigan’s bail, leaving Harrigan’s sureties to potentially pay the full $600,000 they had signed as collateral in relation to the bail bond. The former Customs officer’s bail was revoked following reports that […]

While lamenting the prevalence of gun-related crimes in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions also decried the number of convicted persons who use their relatives as an excuse to get leniency from judges. […]

By Davion Smith, BVI News Online Journalist Dominican Republic carrier Sky High Aviation Services is launching the first-ever direct, commercial flights between the British Virgin Islands (BVI) and Jamaica. The inaugural flight is expected to happen early this month, and […]

Reports are that Essadro Jefferson has refused to leave Her Majesty’s Prison to attend court in relation to a fresh charge he now faces for allegedly conspiring to murder David ‘Mooney’ Springette. Springette was gunned down outside the Wayside Bar […]

The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force this afternoon charged a third person in relation to the murder of David Springette outside the Wayside Bar in Fat Hogs Bay on the evening of June 21. Springette, who was pronounced dead at […]

The Dominican Republic native who is accused of murdering Alston Penn has acquired legal representation. Yamarco Hernandez will be represented by attorney-at-law Akilah Anderson of N.R. Samuel and Co. The Legal Aid Board here in the British Virgin Islands has […]

A man in his forties was hauled before the Magistrate’s Court this month for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman by – among other things – putting his finger into her rectum. Charged with two counts of indecent assault is Jerome […]